Saturday, August 24, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Richard Christiansen. A Theater of Our Own: A History and …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2024
Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . Just about everyone loves to sneer at lawyers despite their importance and frequent value to us as individuals and society as a whole. I won't even both…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Barbra Streisand. My Name Is Barbra (New York: Viking, 2…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Theater Analysis by Carol Rocamora . . . When multiple revivals of the same classic dominate our stages in successive seasons, one can't help but ask, as we're now tempted to do: "Why this p…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Judi Dench (with John Miller). And Furthermore (New York…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . There are jobs in this world that many of us, well actually most of us, could never dream of doing. They're dirty, dangerous, or horrifying"but the trut…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:22PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2024
Cabaret Review by Cooper Lawrence and Sheila Watko . . . Another great Joe Iconis & Family show is in the books at 54 Below. It was"once again"the coolest party in town with the cool…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Mel Brooks. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show B…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Are you a sucker for sentiment? Do you not care that much if a play you're seeing is contrived, clichéd, and conventional, as long as you enjoy …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Chris Jones. Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2024
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . With Manhattan temperatures regularly hitting the mid-90s this July, even the most serious-minded theatergoer is apt to be searching for frothier far…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:06PM[SHARE]Theater Review by Yani Perez . . . MarÃa Irene Fornés' La Viuda returns to the stage in a new production by Dogteam Theatre Project at Atlantic Stage 2. Translated and directed by Ol…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:35PM[SHARE]Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Peter Hay. Theatrical Anecdotes. (New York: Oxford Unive…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:28PM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2024
Cabaret Review by JK Clarke . . . Lea DeLaria's cleverly double- or triple-entendre titled monthly show at 54 Below, Brunch is Gay may also just be unintentionally exhibiting the simples…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:00AM[SHARE]Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . I know that's an unconventional way to begin a review of a new work, but that's the feeling that swept over me, watching Kathleen McGhee-Anderson's…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:29AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot-off-the-presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Pete Blatchford. Wicked, Immoral, Utterly Bad! An Illust…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2024
Theater Review by Adam Cohen . . . Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! is unadulterated hysteria. Stop reading now and book your tickets. Escola brilliantly subverts history and creates an indelible vie…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Summertime, and the pickings are measly. At least that's the case with two new Off-Broadway musicals I had the displeasure of seeing over the pas…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 6, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot-off-the-presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Chris Jones. Bigger, Brighter, Louder: 150 Years of …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:44PM[SHARE]Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . From Here, a disposable musical brought to New York's Signature Center by the Renaissance Theatre Company of Orlando, Florida, is the kind of produ…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 30, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot-off-the-presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Ben Hecht. A Child of the Century. (New Haven and Lo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Norman Mathews " The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in M…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 15, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . A ferocious flock of Furies is unleashed in Lucy Kirkwood's wild new play The Welkin. They seek vengeance upon the world"and each other"for the fate …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:16AM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . We learn that he was bitten by a spider at the age of six. We learn that she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of twelve. We learn that, growing up…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2024
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . Just like many skeptics refused to believe that the enormous "ship of dreams" known as Titanic could ever actually be built, an eyebrow or two wa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:25PM[SHARE]Cabaret Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Ricky Ritzel is an exceptionally inventive, highly motivated, knowledgeable theatrical anthropologist, ready to rummage through mounds of musical comedy…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . SITI Company: THIS IS NOT A HANDBOOK (n.p.: SITI Company…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:13PM[SHARE]Theater Review by Yani Perez . . . . The Public Theater's Mobile Unit is back this season, presenting the bilingual musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, adapt…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Every once in a while, a small, forgotten play resurfaces, making a great and joyful noise. Such is the case with the beautiful revival of Home, Samm…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2024
GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, gave "Illinoise," "Merrily We Roll Along," "Oh, Mary!" and "Stereophonic" its top honors in the group's second annual Dorian Theater Award…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:17PM[SHARE]Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Molly Sweeney, by the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, is a sensitively crafted, verbally rich, but dramatically challenged and overlong (two ho…
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